It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.
--Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
"The archival cockroach will be a robust repository, able to survive almost all conceivable scenarios."
--Jaron Lanier, "A Time Capsule that will survive One Thousand Years in Manhattan"
"I have thirteen 'standard agreements'."
--Charlie Thorn. Director, Strategic Research & Development Projects, Office of R&D, Curtin University of Technology, Perth